Gage-adjusting tool



1. w. GILLIAM;

GAGE ADJUSTING TOOL. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26. 1920.

1,387,3 3, I Patented Aug. 9,1921.

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UNITED STATES Parser QEFIQE.

JAMES WPGILLIAM, 0F PEVELY, MISSOURI.

GAGE-ADJUSTING TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 9, 1921.

Application filed June 26, 1920. Serial No. 392,126.

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. GILLIAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pevely, in the county of Jefferson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gage -Adjusting Tools, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the ac coinpanying drawing.

My invention relates to a gage adjusting tool, and its object is to provide a tool for use in railway track laying, to aid in rapid adjustmentof a rail to the required gage.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a'tool embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of said tool. Fig. 8 is a perspective view showing the tool in place upon a railway track and illustrating its use in connection with the crowbar with which, or some equivalent lever,

the tool is intended for use.

In the drawings the bar 4 is of wood or like non-conducting material (to prevent short-circu iting between electrified rails) and carries the plate 5, secured by bolts 6, and

having downwardly projecting teeth 7--7.

The teeth 7-7 are so spaced as to engage the ball of the rail 8. At its opposite extremity the bar 4' (the length of which bar 4c is determinediby the gage of the track) carries the slotted plate 9, secured to it by bolts 10. The plate 9 has a longitudinal slot 11, the length of which is such that when in use the slot will be evenly balanced over the ball of the rail 14, having a space at each side of said rail-ball through which the lever 15' may be inserted, the ends of the slot ll'be-r ing the fulcruniing edges 12 and 13. By the lever 15 therail 14 is adjusted inwardly or outwardly with relation to the rail 8,

and when in proper gage is spiked or otherwise secured in POSltlOIL' Having described my invention what I In testimony whereof I hereuntoaflix my signature.

JAMES w. GILLIAM. 

